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  Re: Cloth - as shrinkwrap?  
From: Mike Thorn
Date: 22 Dec 2004 11:59:01
Message: <41c9a7d5$1@news.povray.org>
GrimDude wrote:
> I'm working on a WW1 series of aircraft and I'd like to know if anyone has 
> come up with a method to use a cloth simulation to emulate something like 
> shrinkwrap? The older planes were covered with a fabric and aircraft dope 
> which would cause the cloth to tense up to the underlying structure (except 
> where rosin/wax existed). It's not just wings, either, and includes concave 
> as well as canvex requirements.
> 
> Any ideas on how to proceed would be appreciated (I'd hate to have to create 
> a surface mesh, but I suppose I could). I'm using a mesh2 array of objects 
> as the group to be covered (if that helps).
> 
> Sample to be posted in p.b.i.

Could this perhaps be accomplished somehow through megapov's cloth 
simulation abilities?

~Mike


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